BREAKING: Momodou Taal, one of Cornell's most infamous activists, has opted to leave the country and has "self-deported himself."

"Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high..." More of his statement which is overall just a deranged rant...

On March 26, 2025, UVA students walked out of class to protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil and to demand that the University of Virginia protect students from ICE and the threat of deportation. This “walkout” protest also focused on recent decisions made by the Board of Visitors to end DEI initiatives and to stop providing transgender healthcare for minors at UVA Health.

This thread will take some unexpected turns as we explore the origin story of a UVA Law professor who, as a student radical at Yale, was arrested by the Secret Service at the RNC for rushing Dick Cheney and later pursued an anarcho-folk music career. We’ll also delve into the growing grievance culture among UVA students and more!

Let’s get started! 🧵 Professor Thomas Frampton begins by acknowledging the presence of approximately 150 UVA law students and introduces himself. I have a fellow FOIA Warrior investigating whether he canceled class to be at this protest, which I would see as failure to uphold his academic duties.

“My name is Thomas Frampton. I'm a professor at UVA School of Law, and I'm honored and proud to be joining all of you here today.”

He then offers a brief apology for his discomfort speaking at a rally, saying, "I apologize. I'm much more comfortable in front of a lectern than in front of a large rally." Frampton shares that he has been asked to speak about Mahmoud Khalil's case and the legal framework surrounding it, setting the stage for his discussion.

Frampton is not uncomfortable speaking before crowds. He was a one-time member of the Riot Folk Collective. In their own words, “The Riot Folk collective is a group of radical musicians trying to make folk a threat again.”

How about a brief detour for just one tweet before we get back to UVA? As always, feel free to skip around; my feelings won’t be hurt.

On March 19, 2025, I attended the George Mason University Faculty Senate meeting to gain insight into the current campus climate.

Although one GMU student had already been arrested for planning a mass casualty attack on the Israeli consulate in New York and a December raid of a student residence tied to two leaders of GMU’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine had uncovered firearms, ammunition, terrorist flags, and a sign reading "Death to Jews," the Faculty Senate expressed frustration over the university’s board of visitors adopting an anti-Semitism policy aligned with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.

Many professors also voiced concerns about the Trump administration and the fact that George Mason had been named that week as one of sixty other schools being investigated for anti-Semitism.

Despite this, it was a joy to watch President Gregory Washington speak on everything from free speech to academic freedom. However, it was clear that many faculty members were uneasy with recent decisions by GMU’s Board of Visitors and in this meeting they even adopted a policy to delete Zoom recordings of the faculty senate after the minutes had been composed to avoid leaving a record of comments (which likely violates Virginia’s FOIA laws). Even President Gregory Washington seemed aware of the charged atmosphere, acknowledging offensive remarks directed toward him by certain Senate members since October 7th.

As I reflect on the meeting, I’m left with mixed feelings. President Washington's leadership and ability to balance the expectations of faculty and the Board is admirable. Needless to say, I was just stunned at the defiance from some of the professors and their willingness to pretty much go to bat for what I see as a terrorist cell. Even President Washington alluded to the fact that the raided house held more horrors than what was revealed by police.

I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on this meeting and the ongoing debate at GMU. 🧵 Heads up, this thread is going to be quite long, so feel free to skip around. I am also going to be front loading what I feel is most important.

Alexander Monea began by acknowledging President Washington’s leadership during challenging times, referencing both the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing political turbulence. Washington humorously responded, "I'm a crisis president."

Monea raised concerns about George Mason being included on a list of universities under scrutiny by the Trump administration for anti-Semitism. This followed the board’s recent adoption of a “controversial” anti-Semitism policy. (Really just asking admin to consider IHRA definition of anti-Semitism when investigating complaints) Monea expressed concern, referencing Columbia University’s situation where resources were withheld and concessions made due to similar issues.

Washington clarified that George Mason is in a different situation compared to many universities on the list. "We didn’t have encampments, we didn’t have occupation of buildings… our protests, for the most part, were activities that in my opinion were protected directly by the First Amendment."

"We were under the original slate of institutions that were investigated after October 7th for anti-Semitic activity."

GMU was never had violations under this investigation, which started under the previous administration. Washington shared that GMU had submitted a response to the investigation a year ago, highlighting new initiatives and outcomes since the initial investigation. He emphasized that despite no response from the federal government yet, GMU had proactively updated and resubmitted their response.

All of this sounds good, but Washington made no mention of the one student who was planning a terrorist attack and the 2 SJP leaders who had their home raided until he was point blank asked.

Students for Justice in Palestine at Virginia Tech are hosting a three-day sit-in to commemorate the anniversary of the Virginia Tech Encampment and to celebrate the "powerful moments" that resulted in 82 arrests.

SJP asserts that this is a registered event and guarantees that there will be "no risk in participating."

"So come, connect, rejoice, and stand in unwavering support for Palestine. Liberation is built in community. We’ll see you on the lawn."

Be sure to check out all my previous reporting below on the Virginia Tech Encampment 🧵
The encampment sprang up and listed their demands.

https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1783850135568404953

BREAKING: A video of the arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk has been released. The Tufts graduate student was arrested by ICE yesterday in connection with her role as an SJP organizer at Tufts University.

Stick around for my past coverage of Tufts SJP 🧵 Right off the bat, I want to dispel any notions that Tufts SJP is just a bunch of anti-war student activists. Here is one of their encampment teach-ins on the "Resistance in South Lebanon."

https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1786159375666540815

On March 13th, Weill Cornell Medicine, the medical school of Cornell University, hosted the University of Washington's Professor Elle Lett for a talk titled "The Relevance of 'Intersectionality' to Medical Training in the Anti-DEI Era."

This talk has me at a loss for words, but the video will speak for itself. I'm going to neutrally summarize the talk in this thread and will interject my opinion on a few key matters.

One thing I will admit is this, I often walk away from talks like this thinking to myself, "Are we training doctors or are we prioritizing ideology?" 🧵 Nick, a 3rd year MD PhD student and part of the QUIS Queer initiative for physician scientists board introduced Professor Lett.

"Dr. Elle Lett is a Black transgender statistician, epidemiologist, and physician in training. Through her work, she studies how to measure and mitigate the impacts of discrimination on people's health, specifically focusing on population health for trans people of color, police violence as a manifestation of structural racism, and algorithmic bias."

Nick also details Dr. Lett's academic roles and future career trajectory:

"She serves as a clinical assistant professor of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health, scholar in residence at the school's Center for Anti-racism, and associate editor for the Health Equity Journal. After completing medical school this year, she will start residency in emergency medicine."

Last week @GlennYoungkin did a media circuit declaring that "DEI is done at the University of Virginia." If that were the case, there wouldn't be a private workshop and seminar on "Decolonizing Your Syllabus" and "Seeing the Unseen: Identifying and Unlearning Colonial Paradigms in Higher Education" which is happening this Friday at UVA.

What does Decolonial thought look like? Here are three professors, all from Virginia's Top 3 Public Universities, discussing Decolonial Theory.

Meet the University of Virginia's Tiffany King, Virginia Tech's Bikrum Gill, and William & Mary's Stephen Sheehi. Do these professors sound like educators or radicals hellbent on destroying America?

"In the moment that you grab the gun like Fanon says, you're no longer oppressed, you're now free. How do we teach that in the class? Just to say that in the class, my students' heads explode. Right? To tell them about violence, you know, as a revolutionary tool, as sometimes a revolutionary essential."

"We actually need to crash the US settler state"

"We must stand with the armed resistance and work right now to end this impunity by disrupting the flow of weapons to Zionist cause. The armed resistance will defeat Zionism if it was open battlefield."

I can't tell you how many times I have heard it, "Decolonialization is not a metaphor." This Trojan Horse ideology has infected campuses all over America and this is what it looks like in Virginia.

Stick around as we look at next week's event at UVA, how Decolonization creates Title VI complaints, and national security concerns related to this! 🧵 Next Friday, The Center for Teaching Excellence at UVA is hosting University of Memphis professor and activist Amanda Lee Keikialoha Savage. As you can see, she will be holding at a seminar and doing a workshop as well. Both of these events are not open to the public.

As you heard in the intro video, UVA's Professor King said, "Challenge what the settler state, the settlement of, the University of Virginia that we're on, which is still a plantation and has all of its plantation artifice up, right, and artifacts. I'm trying to really ride the wheels off of these institutional resources, and go for broke."

Decolonial theorists actually see the university itself as a form of colonization. Frantz Fanon said, "Colonialism is a psychic and epistemological process as much as a material one."

These academic activists see the university as a seat of power that continues to perpetuate inequality, exploitation, and colonial legacies. They believe the university doesn't prioritize Indigenous, Black, and marginalized voices and overly values Western epistemologies as the dominant knowledge systems.

What do you seriously think is going to happen during this talk at a university founded by Thomas Jefferson?

I have this archived just in case UVA deletes it -> cte.virginia.edu/programs/cte-s…

Some of Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers are from CUNY CLEAR. If only someone had been recording them for the past few years. Oh wait, that person was me.

Here is one of Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers, Shazza Abboushi Dallal, from a CUNY CLEAR training that I snuck into and recorded.

"Another question: what if somebody just pretends complete ignorance to Hamas, don't know what you're talking about.

So I think this question is really like Yeah, I, I would answer the same way. I mean, first of all, saying I don't know when you do know, or feigning ignorance when that's not the reality, could be construed as a misrepresentation or a lie, and you find yourself in the sort of situation that you wanna avoid that we were speaking about earlier of criminal and potential immigration consequences flowing.

And that's why, you know, silence is just, is better. Better and more protective for you."

I can't tell you how many of these sorts of trainings I have attended where legal clinics like CUNY CLEAR urged foreign student activists to be smarter about what they said publicly. They knew this day could come one day. It is here now. The Legal Rights teach-in where these videos came from can be found here, and I think many would be served in watching it. You will realize quite quickly that Khalil has most certainly violated immigration law and the terms of his residency here in the United States.

"We want to make sure you know [about things that] will create risks for you if you're not a citizen, so that's inciting, advocating, or declaring public approval or support for terrorist activity..."

Teach-in ➡️x.com/thestustustudi…

🚨Deport Momodou Taal🚨

President Trump just signed an executive order that would instruct federal agencies to cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses.

Cornell graduate student, instructor, and activist Momodou Taal has gotta go! 🧵 If you have been following me for some time, you know that I sit in on all these various activist teach-ins and seminars. After Taal was almost deported last year, he became a hot commodity and started to show up in teach-ins.

I first ran into him during a call hosted by the Young Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice in Palestine.

This video is from October 6, 2024.

Yesterday at the University of Notre Dame, @GovRonDeSantis discussed why college campuses in Florida were not plagued with student encampments.

"If any of our universities turned into Columbia, the university president would lose their job the next day. It would be done. We would not ever tolerate the inmates running the asylum."

DeSantis spends a few minutes examining the claim that Palestine is "occupied" to expose how pro-Palestine clichés "betray their ignorance."

"If you find yourself out there saying somehow 'end occupation,' I would just like to know when there was some type of Palestinian [state]. I think it's all people that don't know their history. I think it's kind of like the Left Wing Cause Du Jour." This allowed DeSantis to discuss how students who claim Gaza is occupied are "never challenged on their assumptions."

He goes on to discuss how conservative students on campus "learn how to make arguments, you learn how to marshal evidence, you learn these things because no one on a university campus is just going to accept conservative assumptions about any of these issues without a fight."

DeSantis talks about initiatives in Florida that foster civil discourse and free debate.

"I want all of our students to have their assumptions questioned."

"You learn the most when you're given a topic and you have to argue on the side that you actually disagree with."

DeSantis discusses the cold reality of the cost you have to pay to stand up for these issues on campus, but he believes that "the only way for bad to triumph is for good people do nothing."

He wraps up by discussing how he has friends who he disagrees with politically and are able to maintain friendship. However, the Governor notes that he thinks Leftism is a religion for some and that is why people get "disowned for supporting conservative causes." DeSantis think that is dangerous for the country and we need more bipartisan comradery.

There will be a nationwide Student Strike in Spring 2025. How do I know this? Because it's already being planned by the Young Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice in Palestine.

Buckle up as you see many familiar faces like @Cornell's Momodou Taal, who nearly had his student visa revoked, and @Columbia's Sean Eren, a panelist from the infamous pro-terror Resistance 101 teach-in! 🧵 Intros were a tad shaky, but the organizers of this call are...

Saffa Nahi from Cal State Fullerton
Carlos Callejo from Cal Poly Pomona
Aron Ali-McClory from the University of Florida (Note: I remember him from the UF attempts to have an encampment.)

Nahi pauses to introduce the two YDSA Palestine Committee co-chairs.

Daniil Sapunkov from Hunter College
Arjun Janakan from Purdue University

Janakan kicks off this event by saying, "This is our first big event of the school year and the extension of the Student Intifada, and I'm very excited to cohere the national strategy of going forward and making a consistent cohered sense of force into our next upcoming school year of Palestine activism."

Thank you to everyone who reached out today about Samidoun being labeled as a terrorist entity by the US and Canada.

For those catching up on Samidoun, here are a few older threads of mine about this nefarious terrorist front and places where accountability is needed. 🧵 Samidoun's Kates was an invited speaker at a CUNY teach-in back in November of 2023 alongside Columbia Professor Baconi and WOL Nerdeen Kiswani.

Once again, @CUNY has remained silent on the radical ties of CUNY 4 Palestine.

https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1727097554741907601

Earlier this week, @WakeForest was in the news for canceling an event with Prof. Rabab Abdulhadi, who was slated to give a lecture entitled One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood: Reflections on a Year of Genocide & Resistance on October 7th. This lecture was canceled at WF, but @CUNY was more than happy to facilitate and make this event happen last night.

I have seen Professor Abdulhadi present countless times. She typically tiptoes around issues of violence, terrorism, and Hamas by invoking social justice, but not last night. Buckle up for One Year Since Al-Aqsa Flood 🧵 First some housekeeping; the full talk is up on my Youtube. Since the talk is entitled One Year Since al-Aqsa Flood, I'm going to focus almost exclusively on what Abdulhadi had to say about what I consider to be a terrorist attack. I hope it is understood that Al-Aqsa Flood is the operational name that Hamas gave the attack on October 7th. I do list these together just in case some don't know. I think it is widely understood now, but you never know.

Parts of her lecture, like comparing this moment to Vietnam anti-war protest movements, are outside the scope of what I really think is necessary to cover. With some teach-ins, I cover every minute, but this was a two-hour event. This is why the full recording is made possible.

I pulled an all-nighter to make sure this went out today.

Lehman College's Britt Munro got this talk started by introducing the two speakers, Wake Forest University's Barry Trachtenberg and San Francisco State University's Rabab Abdulhadi.

Munro compares what Israel is doing to the settler-colonialism of America.

"As we gather here in refusal at one kind of settler colonial violence, we recognize that you know everything that we've borne witness to Israel doing over the past year, in the past 76 years, so the erasure, the dehumanization, the genocide, all of that has been done on these lands, the indigenous peoples of these lands, and continues to be done."

CUNY 4 Palestine recognizes the need for stronger solidarity with "Indigenous Struggles here on Turtle Island" and has partnered with the American Indian Community House to make a list of demands for CUNY.

There is then a moment of silence for "the martyrs."

Last week I attended the Student Intifada Roundtable: US, Mexico, Poland, & Egypt, which featured students from around the world. However, I will be focusing largely on the participant from the US, Harvard's Kojo Acheampong, who discussed the Student Intifada at Harvard University. 🧵 The Student Intifada "media company" hosted this event and plans on having more roundtables like this.

The Student Intifada moderator introduced Kojo Acheampong as "a student at Harvard, member of Harvard AFRO, African and African American Resistance Organization, and HOOP, Harvard out of occupied Palestine."

Acheampong gets started with some history of the student intifada at Harvard.

"You know October 7th happens and the Palestine Solidarity Committee releases a statement regarding, like, you know, saying that the violence obviously is all on the settler colonial regime that's Israel and it goes crazy, you know? Folks, Zionists, start attacking the movement, obviously, but it also draws a lot of people into the movement."

Acheampong states the mission and goal of the student movement.

"Our task is to build a mass movement and make Palestine a popular issue; make Palestine, you know, something that the world can see, right, and something that they'll see in the struggle. And so that's what we've been trying to do for what the past almost year now."

I sat in on SJP at UCLA's class 'What is Escalation, The Palestinian National Movement, Revolutionary Optimism.' What I heard and saw was a deeply radicalized SJP chapter sharing all manner of terrorist propaganda, preparing for “escalations” in the new semester, and praising October 7th as an “escalation” done right.

Prepare to meet the useful idiots of SJP at @UCLA 🧵 The class got started with some "Resistance Updates" as “Eos” shared news from various armed militant groups like the Tulkarm Brigades. She relates that these groups had killed civilians in the West Bank and expelled many with their "blessed bullets."

"The only thing that is fighting back against the occupation is the resistance and it's really amazing how the you know the Axis of Resistance and like the resistance on the ground in Palestine is you know despite their conditions continuing to resist."

This is a UCLA student casually endorsing terrorist attacks.

Here is the second of four forums that Brown University is holding in regards to divesting from Israel. Yesterday, students opposed to divestment presented their case.

Stick around for the full recording and clips from this forum! 🧵 Here is the video of the full presentation. Remember, Brown is a private university; you can't FOIA this video. Without me, this recording may not have ever gone public. This will be mirrored on YouTube as well.

Brown Divestment Coalition works with other student divestment groups across the nation. What happens at Brown will impact other schools. Higher education frequently likes to welcome you as part of the greater "community" until you start making things difficult for them. Clearly, they don't want full transparency on this matter.

BREAKING: Joseph Edelman, a Brown University trustee, has now resigned over the future divestment vote at Brown University.

As a result, I am releasing my recording of the Wednesday meeting where the Brown Divest Coalition presented their proposal to divest from Israel. Here is video of the full presentation below. Remember, Brown is a private university; you can't FOIA this video. Without me, this recording may not have ever gone public.

I honestly wanted a bit more time with this footage and other divestment trainings I have recorded to present this in a digestible format. The language of ESG is how many of these students are getting their foot in the door and they are being trained to exploit this. There is a lot I could say about this subject.

However, Edelman's resignation will hopefully get sizable attention, and I hope by "democratizing" this footage, you can see how ridiculous this presentation was. If you use it, please tag me so I can boost it and comment if needed.

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On Sunday, I was able to see most of Welcome to Chicago: Radical Memories, Revolutionary Horizons.

This teach-in featured young activists who are marching on the DNC but also three members of the Weather Underground, a Black Panther and Black Liberation Army militant who murdered two police officers, and the founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago, who actively works to abolish prisons and police.

A hailstorm knocked out my power, so I did not catch all of this event, but what I saw was the torch of militant radicalism passed to the next generation. Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers hosted this event and had the two younger activists introduce themselves.

Dixon Romeo of Not Me We and co-chair of the March on the DNC, Kobi Guillory, represented the new generation of militant activists. Guillory is also a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

On August 8th, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization held their All Out for the March on the DNC organizing call. The DNC is being targeted by far-left activists from across the nation who are all united under the banner of ending U.S. aid to Israel and "freeing" Palestine. Up first was Chrisley Carpio, who explained what the Freedom Road Socialist Organization is and why they are motivated to protest the DNC.

"We are an organization of revolutionaries that is on the move and that can move others. We are committed to making a serious change. We're tired of the system that we live under, that is built upon war carried out by the imperialists. Starvation, poverty, we think that this is a system, oh, and genocide." [SIC]

"We think that the system cannot be fixed with reform, and we know because of the revolutionaries who came before us that change won't come from an ivory tower high above our heads. It's definitely not going to come from the billionaires who play with our lives like they're just chips in a casino nor their political agents in the Democratic Party who would rather fund a genocide of the brave people of Palestine than meet our demands. Our hope comes from people taking matters into their own hands, taking to the streets, and seizing political power."

"We'll be standing together with the people of Palestine, the heroes in Gaza, and the oppressed peoples of the world."

BREAKING: The pressure must be on because Representative Ilhan Omar is out knocking door to door letting people know that the Minnesota primary is tomorrow. She called into her phonebank to thank those that are calling voters for her.

Omar's bandwidth improves! Her campaign has counterarguments for the following:

Ilhan hates Israel.
Ilhan is anti-semitic.
Why is she running for a 4th term?
Ilhan isn't present in the district.
Ilhan voted against aid for Ukraine.
Ilhan is safe - I don't need to vote.

BREAKING: Tonight Code Pink hosted a webinar with two former members of the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. Bill Ayers and Eleanor Stein shared their "wisdom" with a new generation of radical activists.

Ayers was particularly complimentary of the student encampments.

"Hats off to the encampments, and hats off to creating spaces where real education went on. Any university worth its salt would have said, 'Wow, these encampments are doing what we should have been doing all along. Let's embrace them. Let's invest in them.' And instead, they called the cops."

Ayers thinks the student encampment energy is going to make itself known at the Democratic Convention this August. Remember, Ayers and the Students for a Democratic Society rioted in Chicago for the 1968 convention.

"A lot of that [encampment] energy, is coming to Chicago. Where is it going to go? What outlet does it have?"

Sounds like Ayers expects riots at the DNC this year... Ayers was introduced as "a distinguished professor of education" and as an "engaged scholar."

This totally reminded me of "austere religious scholar" being used for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Eleanor Stein, whom many of my older followers may remember as Eleanor Raskin, was introduced as a "climate justice advocate and activist."

Code Pink's Danaka giggles as she mentions how active Stein was during the "mass movement against the Vietnam War in the 60s and 70s."

There was absolutely no mention of these two being part of the Weather Underground or the fact that their bombing campaign killed people.